Metal 3D Printing- AT HOME!
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- Опубликовано: 11 сен 2024
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Imagine wearable armor made out of this
Our Tungsten filament is used like this to create flexible radiation shielding for working in shielded 'glove boxes'.
Amazing!
That is cool you know the armor bodysuit you can make
We can 3d print robots with a dual nozzle printer once someone develops a nonconductive material that can be sintered and shrinks at the same rate.
The thermal characteristics don't have to match closely as long the insulater is sufficiently elastic.
Such a system could print barely functional electric motors and switches. The electromagnets would work dramatically better with iron cores. Those can be 3d printed using a filament with iron filings. This would allow the printing of barely functional solenoids and relays.
There is a reason why the contact points on relays and switches are made with different materials from the bulk conductive elements. Ordinary copper electrical contacts will have a short life switching non-inductive loads. The life will be even shorter switching inductive loads like motors, solenoids, or relays.
At robotics summer camp, both the eight year olds and their are parents are impressed when the kids make robots that reverse when they hit things. We show the kids how to operate the switches on LEGO battery packs with LEGO beams. The kids do the rest of the designing and building by themselves. Each year a few kids independently discover how to make a robot that only turns when in reverse. This results in a robot that can go through a maze. This exercise is early in the week before we give them microcontrollers and teach them programming.
The point of that digression is that it doesn't take a very complex mechanism to really impress people.
Strength of 3D Printed vs Raw Stock metal?
It will be a little less because the final parts are not 100% solid (a property of powdered metal sintering).
OK now you done got me asking questions in my head.
Ask them here, this is all open technology. We're eager to share.
You claim it of a $500 machine, but you never showed the machine, the filament, the print process. I would be interested in this, but without more information this video is a tad bit on the useless side. Cool, if what you say is true... However, please excuse a bit of doubt instilled in me by years of being lied to by RUclipsrs making false claims. I sincerely hope this is true! I just need a bit more information it it!
Healthy skepticism is a great quality. We're happy to offer more info!
We make and sell the metal filament. The 3D printer was a standard Creality Ender 3. After printing, you use a standard kiln to remove the plastic binder in the filament (debind) and then weld the metal particles together (sinter). This video kicks in after that heat process has been completed.
This video shows a quick overview of the whole process: ruclips.net/video/yczZWRFUVLU/видео.htmlfeature=shared
And our RUclips channel has a ton of information on the process and the equipment: ruclips.net/channel/UC6n-nivGNh4rl0K2-Q8YfOg
Write to us at info@thevirtualfoundry.com any time!
@@TheVirtualFoundrydo you sell the filament?
We do. We even make them ourselves. We stock 10-11 different metals, three kinds of ceramics and even a glass FFF 3D printing filament!
Find them all here: shop.thevirtualfoundry.com/
@@TheVirtualFoundry Thank you! I am beside myself with excitement! Now if I only had an oven to debind and to sinter I would give it a try. If my printer can do that kind of thing, of course. I will have to look into that.
The oven is almost certainly more expensive than the printer.
Awsome wheere did u buy from
We make and sell the metal filament that was printed: shop.thevirtualfoundry.com/
It was printed on a regular FFF/FDM 3D printer likely our Creality Ender 3.
It was debound (remove the plastic binder) and sintered (weld the metal particles together) in a regular table-top kiln
Learn more at thevirtualfoundry.com/
It's metal 3D printing you can do in your own studio!
@@TheVirtualFoundry thank you for your response where can I get the 3D printer for the metal
You can use most any standard FFF / FDM style 3D printer. Brands like Creality, Prusa, Ultimaker, Bambu Lab, etc. The printer is your choice. Direct drive treats the filament a little better than a bowden system does.
Use a 0.6mm hardened steel nozzle, set your nozzle temp to 210C and your flow rate to 135%. That's it!
The filament is made of metal powder in a PLA-compliant binder so it prints like PLA.
More on printer selection in this video: ruclips.net/video/_pxvb1D92WI/видео.htmlfeature=shared